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Managing the hybrid workplace

The remote office, and with it, the hybrid office, have created new opportunities and challenges. Here is Nina Fountain of Transformed Teams on how to navigate them.

September 23, 2021

4 considerations to make when training a virtual team

When you can’t get everyone together, there will be difficulties, especially when you have team members in different time zones, who speak different languages. Layla Fenston offers four tips to minimise the problems.

October 25, 2016

Education

8 innovation rituals for your organisation

It might sound counter-intuitive to link rituals with innovation, but experience shows the two actually go hand-in-hand. Here are Ivan Seselj’s eight suggestions to make it happen in your organisation.

September 28, 2016

Teamwork

Leading a motivated project team

Every project is primarily a social situation and within each situation are five elements that can be a motivational reward or a threat to an individual. Dr Lynda Bourne says a leader must get the mix right to drive a motivated team.

June 7, 2016

Happiness, motivation and team performance

How important is happiness to team performance? Is a happy workplace a prerequisite to motivation, or is it a consequence of a motivated team enjoying their work and successes? asks Dr Lynda Bourne.

May 10, 2016

Teamwork

Why do committees make bad decisions?

Good group decision-making involves an open discussion among members, each with their own skills, experience, ideas and information, leading to an informed decision. So why are project teams often so bad at it? asks Pat Weaver.

April 21, 2016

Teamwork

6 tips to improve incident management

We do our best to prevent incidents from occurring, but that can’t be our only preparation. Hannah Dickins suggests six ways to improve your incident management process.

February 10, 2016

Risk

Using constraints for project success

Effectively managing the Triple Constraints does not guarantee success. Additional project constraints need to be taken into account for complete project success, explains PM Oracles.

December 14, 2015

Managing